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...reasonable kids who turn into very smart sportswriters have a weakness for moralizing. There's nothing that excites a sports commentator like a basketball player fighting, a football player caught with pot or a boxer's DUI. Sportswriters are on the far right of the culture wars, reactionaries longing for the days before they were born, when athletes were viewed as paragons of society ... because the sports writers who got drunk with them at Toots Shor agreed not to write about their alcoholism, philandering, gambling and fighting...
...Most Cariocas got the message. Some shops and bars were closed the next day as rumors of a new attacks spread. Buses remained in their depots. Many people, petrified of getting caught in the crossfire, locked their doors and sat at home. The federal government agreed to send reinforcements and Cabral publicly acknowledged Rio faces a serious problem; that was a sharp contrast to his predecessors, whose consistent denials that Rio is no more dangerous than London or New York beggared belief...
Less than two months later, Saddam was gone. By the end of 2003, when he was caught near his native Tikrit, his military and political networks had been dismantled, his ubiquitous statues and portraits had disappeared. His ruthless sons Uday and Qusay had been killed. The republic of fear had been destroyed. And Saddam's prospects of becoming one of history's greats--hero or villain--were dashed. Nebuchadnezzar, Hammurabi and Saladin had never cowered in a spider hole...
...with more power and authority were grappling with the challenges of e-voting too. Some studies have found that e-voting reduces ballot errors by preventing voters from voting too many times or not enough in individual races. But the errors e-voting does produce often can't be caught because most electronic machines don't keep a reliable, independent record of the vote as it occurs. Asked to do a recount, a paperless e-voting machine will simply spit out the previous result. That, combined with the machines' vulnerability to tampering, says the American Enterprise Institute's Ornstein...
...move, long rumored but always denied by senior Bush officials, has caught Washington off guard. It is widely believed to stem from Negroponte's dissatisfaction with the top intelligence job, to which he was nominated in February 2005, and a desire to return to his roots as a diplomat. The Director of National Intelligence (DNI) was a post created to provide streamlined control to 16 U.S. intelligence agencies after the failures that led to 9/11 and the mistaken assessments of Saddam Hussein's weaponry. Negroponte, 67, was the America's first DNI and his departure after little more than...